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NORWICH BULLETIN. FRIDAY, APRIL 2, Y915 lorwich Bulletin and @onsicd 119 YfiARS OLD Enterod at the Postaffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. Telepmone Calles Bulletin Business Office 480. uhletin Baitorial Rooms 35-3 Bulletin Eole etin Job Oice 85-3. Willimantte Ofice, Room % Murray | Metiding. Telephome 310. r-'i'“he Circulation of p— The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by three per cent. of the people. Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam asd Danielson to over 1,100 and in all of these places it is con: ered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty~ nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice distriots, and sixtv rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold In every town -+ on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, averags . 4412 1905, average -...........5 920 .- 9,167 MISREPRESENTING NORWICH. Before the legislative committes on new towns and probate districts rep- resentation was made this week that there was fear in the fourth and fifth districts that the debt of the city now standing at $1,400,000 and that of the town only $220,000 would be saddled upon those sections which are seeking to be set off into a separate town. This, like the whole contentfon, is groundless. Norwich wants to do no such thing. It is making no effort 0 any such end and there is nothing upon which to base such a statement. As a matter of fact the debt of the {town is steadily decreasing_ That it {18 not on, the Increase is a pretty con- { clusive bit of evidence that the town {15 belng economically and efficiently {managed. The indebtedness of the city has shown increase in the past few years because of the necessity of meeting the requirement for public smprovements, but while it has been meeting such demands as every up- to-date city must, its assets have like- wise risen and to a greater extent than its debt. Its credit is No. 1. The city’s obligations, however, are no concern of the town under such conditions. The whole contention re- volves about the bugaboo that the town is going to be forced by some subtle means into consolidation. Noth- 4ng supports such a stand and nothing could be further from the facts. Nor- wich has no such sentimant; it has expressed itself against it, and noth- ing of the kind is heard barring a sporadic individual expression which , has no following. Norwich has consclentiously cared for the interests and welfare of those sections which make up the town and @ssertions to the contrary prompt the question as to what are the things which those districts have asked for which they have not received? Nor- wich has assiduously worked for the benefit of those and other sections &nd it requires only a familiarity with the existing facts to know that when it comes to water, light, fire protec- tion and good roads they are better taken care of than the average town and the average town tax in the state | By the last available figures is nearly a mill larger than the town tax of Norwich, BRING THE COMMITTEE TO NOR- WICH. In presenting its solid opposition to the effort for the division of the town, Norwich cannot estimate too highly the importance of securing an accept- ance by the legislative committee of the invitation extended by the select- men, mavor and civic organizations to visit Norwich and view the prem- lses, Py all means bring them to Nor- wich. Acquaint them with the facts as they exist. Show them the present arrangement of the town, the public improvements that have been pro- vided and maintained for those dis- tricts, the school facilities and other madvantages which are possessed by that section which has petitioned to De separated. There are good reasons to believe that the committee will desire to make Just such an Inspection as a visit here i will permit. It will be first hand in- formation through actual knowledge of the premises and that is what other committees which deal with institu- tions or conditions about the state de- sire. Such o visit would afford a thor- ough understanding of the inter-de- pendence of those and the other dis- tricts of the town and the relation ©of Rhe city to that part of the town which kontains two of the city's reservoirs, e hospital and three of its per- ient charitable institutions, and the Beparation of which would mean the Raking away of certain charter rights Bf the municipal lighting plant. i The committee owes it to itself and Jo Norwich to view the premises. | GOVERNMENT TOO WISE. . | From the large sacrifice which the : m“".mm always malkes when it g of rifles which have been dis- carded in the army when a new type of gun is introduced, it is easy to un- \ flerstand fthat could possession be ob- ed of the third of a million Krags this country has stored away iting a purchaser, a handsome might be made by.the specu- lator who could turn them over to one of the belligerents seeking just such a supply. Evidence is being presented at the present time in New York to the ef- fect that just such a deal was serfous- ly attempted. It was a happy thought for the schemer when the suggestion was made that the rifles be sold by this government for the purpose of preventing them from being used to prolong the war through a sale to those who were interested in peace, but it was too fimsy an excuse. This government was not to be caught nap- ping on any such possible breach of neutrality. Tt has not and will not dispose of the firearms during the existing war. This is the positive declaration of Secretary Garrison. ‘That there is a market for the large number of discardéd rifles is not news to the government. It is aware of the situation awd also of its own re- sponsibility for participation in any such deal at this time, however at- tractive the price might have been made. The 6bligation of the govern- ment is to keep those rifles under its thumb under penalty of violating the stand which it has so well main- tained since the opening of the war. The idea, that possession of the Krags could e secured at this time fails to €l proper credit to the govern- ment, authorities at Washington, FAST DAY. Fast day never comes around but what there is always good reason for observing’ it by fasting and prayer. There is more than the usual grounds for such action this year, both for the expression of thankfulness for our good fortune in not being stricken With such conditions as prevafl in Europe and for the unity of appeals to the Almighty that there may be a speedy adjustment of that horrible state of affairs. ‘Governor Holcomb in his proclama- tion designating this as a day of fast- ing and prayer brings its importance to the attention of each and every one when he says: “I request that on that day all the people of this state, what- ever be their creed or belief, laying aside their usual avocations, humbly bow before the throne of God in rec- ognition of all His mercy to them and their own undeserving; in thankful- ness of heart that He has spared this nation the scourge of war; in earnest supplication for patience, wisdom and courage, that so peace may abide with us and in sincere prayer for an early cessation of the bloody strife which Is rending the nations of the kld world.” Not alone should that a forth to the people of chnefifch‘. T is one in which the whole nation and others as well should participate, Fast day should be looked upon as more than a legal holiday or a day of recre- ation and sport. ARBITRATION PREFERABLE, While rejoicing with Springfield in the quick ending of its trolley- men's strike, every city can ap- preciate fully the situation which had developed throush the stop- cept the mall cars. The railway com- pany lost its daily income and the employes lost two days’ pay, but the greatest sufferers were the people who depend upon just such public service. Tt can be thoroughly understood as the Springfleld Republican says, that “The workers felt it most of all, and it would be difficult to depict the ex- tent of the inconvenience and suffer- ing that was inflicted upon an inno- cent public. That the merchants were seriously affected goes as a matter of course. The one saving factor in this projection of a great and busy mu- nicipality back to conditions that ex- isted before we had our first bobtail street cars was the presence of that new element, the motor driven ve- hicles. It was such a sample of ‘the Z00d old times’ as Springfield never should see again.” Too little consideration is invariably given to thes interests of the public and happy will be the day when strikes cease to be looked upon as 2 necessary method of getting an ad- justment of disputed questions be- tween employer and employed. What- ever the merits of the questions in- volved, there is every reason to bes lieve that they coulq be honestly and fairly adjusted through arbitration and such a view should be taken in every instance where the public is so affect- ed as it is by the tying up of a trans- portation system even though that fur- nishes only city and suburban service, EDITORIAL NOTES. Trout fishermen knew how to bring back the stories, if mot the fish, The man on the corner says: Some meople act as if they regard common sense as cheap and undesirable. Get your buns early is good advice but it should be construed into mean- ing solely the hot cross variety, J. B. Walker of New York has of- fered to give a home in Colorado for newspaper men, but it is a long way to walk. The sending of an eighteen year old boy to jail for a day for being a stubborn child, shows the effect of sparing the rod. 3 Though the Villa faction has set- tled upon a man named Angeles for provisional president he may prove a typical Mexican. Sphing as a season when things burst forth can hardly mean anything new to the armies pitted against each other over in Burope. Davy Jones must be having a busy time -of it stowing away all the ves- sels that are being sent to him by the German submarines. A lot of people are thankful they are not members of the F-4 crew, but there isn't very much choice between that and meeting a German submarine, SR oY et L When Senator Hollls was asking “Why should our secretary of state ‘be a trained diplomat?’ he Tolight have continued and inquired why we should have any such official at all When King Albert says “I am no hero,” he shows the true characte of that class of people who know their duty and invariably declare that “it is no miore than anyome else would have done under like circumstances.” Connecticut from the Massachusetts border to the Sound, from the New York border to the Rhode Island line should be solldly opposed to such a pernicious effort as is being made be- fore the general assembly to secure a division of the town of Nesrme® . Agi ation for the Forming of inations. New Haven, April agitation has resulted recently in the forming of a lacrosse team at Yale. An Important meeting of those Interested in “the reviving of the one-time suc- cessful sport was held in the trophy room of the gymnasium last Friday evening. About 30 men were present at the meeting, where the advantages and points of the game were discussed by the speakers. W. E. Nightingale, captain of the Harvard lacrosse team, discussed the status of the sport at Harvard, stating that no previous training or any_particular skill s re- quired. Frank Sands, '85, S. a former Yale lacrosse player, described athletic conditions at Yale in his time and briefly stated the reasons for the aban- doning of lacrosse at Yale in 1885. Professor Corwin, chairman of _the Yale University Athletic association, welcomed the sport, which will put more men on_the athletic field. Con- cerning the adoption of the new spring sport, Dr. Anderson stated that Yale had a champion lacrosse team a quar- ter of a century ago, but since that time little attention has been paid to it here. “As a substitute for football it is wonth while, and it also keeps in condition men who are members of all the regular athletlc squads. The prom- ise of the spacious new grounds for sports leads the mass of the under- graduate body to be enthuslastic over the future out of door competition at Yale. It is the opinion of those inter- ested that lacrosse will appeal not only to those who arc now working with other teams but also to many who can easily and gladly enter the ranks of those who want a lively open air activ- ity of an apparently less strenuous character than football or aquatics. The chief advantage in introducing lacrosse as a spring sport is that it will provide the men who have former- ly played soccer in the spring, and cannot do so, owing to the abolition of the spring soccer, with an opportunity for outdoor exercise. At Pennsylvania lacrosse has been substituted for spring football, and the results, ac- cording to Coach Dickson, are most suceessful. It may come as a surprise to Yale men that the championship of the first intercollegiate lacrosse league was won by the 1883 team from Yale, her second lacrosse team in the fleld; and also that the position of first defense on the All-American team sent to England in 1884 was held by E. P. Cottle, "84, of the Yale team. The Yale men were among the pioneers in the collegiate lacrosse. In 1877 lacrosse was intro- duced at Harvard. Since that time, except for a short while just after 1890, Harvard has put a team into the field every year, winning the northern intercollegiate_ championship _eleven times. New York university was the second college to organize a lacrosse team; and before 1884 Yale, Princeton, Stevens and Columbia had joined the new intercollegiate lacrosse associa- tion. A number of the larger profes- sional and also preparatory schools be- came interested in the sport and put forth creditable teams. At Yale as the enthusiasm for football increased interest in lacrosse waned, and soon the sport was abolished. The first practice for the spring was held at Yale field last Saturday. A squad of 38 men reported. This not only is manifest of the deep interest felt by the undergraduates but points towards bright prospects for another champion- ship team. In_order to stimulate an interest in the New York Yale club’'s new quar- ters, and to raise additional funds to maintain the building, the club has re- cently sent out circulars to interest Yale graduates throughout the country briefly describing the advantages of the club and soliciting subscriptions. The New York Yale club is designed not merely as a superior town club for the younger Yale graduates, with its equipment of gymnasium, swimming pool, and roof garden; the main object of the building is to provide for a great Yale institution which has, in the past, Dbeen beneficial in many respects to the establishing of Yale graduates in New York city. 1.—Considerable 1 BULLETIN'S SPECIAL YALE LETTER a Lacrosse Team—Yale Had Championship Team in 1883—Moving Pictures of Undergraduate Life—Conference for Entrance Exam- — The subject of taking moving pic- tures of Yalé undergraduate life and activities has attracted considerable attention recently, and a committee has been appointed to investigate the plan. John K, Howe, '71, has been appointed Cchairman of the Committee. In June, 1914, in response to a wide demand from the alumni associations of the country, the Yale corporation request- ed the advisory board to consider the possibility of taking moving pictures of Yale life and to make suggestions as regards financing them. The com- mittee was organized last October and at once found that the first thing to be done was to make arrangements for photographing the football game, which also marked the opening of the new bowl. Accordingly, a contract was made with one of the motion picture companies to make the films and to pay the committee a percentage of the Teceipts from exhibiting the films, in return for the exclusive right of re- cording the game and the privilege of exhibiting the films. Pictures were also taken of some of the preliminary coaching, of practice, the coaches, and of other scenes in New Haven, and these fllms have been exhibited at a number of the alumni association din- ners during the winter. The returns realized on the exhibition of these films were not as large as was ex- pected, and so the progress lately has heen somewhat hampered. However, a few pictures have been taken during the winter, and it is expected that the committee will have very little difficul- ty in raising eufficint funds to carry through the project. The committee has made plans for several series of films, covering the different features of Yale life fairly completely. The first series is to include the leading athletic events, football, baseball and rowing, tegether with some of the minor sports. A second series will include campus Scenes, such as Calcium Light night and Omega Lambda Chi. Probably one series will be utilized to cover all Commencement week events. A film that will perhaps be the most impor- tant is one depicting the chief events of the history of the university, along the lines of the bi-centennial pageant, and including many of the old customs. The dramatic association and, the three athletic associations have pledged their aid and in many cases have given it. The faculty approves the plan and has given valuable suggestions. They have sent many suggestions and have asked for the films at an early date. The fourth annual conference be- tween the Yale examiners and the of- ficial representatives of the secondary schools to review the entrance exam- ination papers to be given in June and September, 1915, will be held on April 10 in New Haven. Representatives from the faculties of schools in Con- necticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsyivania will be present. The purpose of these conven- tions is to bring about a better under- standing between the schoolmasters and the college professors; to deter- mine a set of examinations satisfactory to both the college and the preparatory schools, and to exchange ideas for the solution of the problems which con- front both school and college. The visitors will be the guests of the uni- versity at luncheon and will devote the entire afternoon tv the conference. The sixty-fourth congress of the United States, which went into office March 4, has 17 Yale graduates among its members, of whom six are in the senate and eleven in the house of rep- resentatives. Connecticut leads in the number of Yale graduates, both sena- tors and two representatives holding Yale degrees. Frank B. Brandegee graduated from Yale in 1885, and George Payne McLean was granted an honorary degree of M. A. In 1904. John Q. Tilson was a member of the class 8§91, in addition to his B. A. he re- ceived the degree of LL. B. and M. L., both from Yale. Ebenezer Hill was at Yale only two vears, receiving an honorary degree of M. A.'in 1392. Other Yale men in the senate are Francis G. Newlands of Nevada, who was a mem- ber of the class of 1867, until the mid- dle of his junior year. He received his FRECKLES Now is the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots. There's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription othine—double strength—is guaranteed to remove these homely spots. Simply get an ounce of othine— double strength—from any druggist and apply a little of it night and morn- ing and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to dis- appear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than an ounce is needed to com- pletely clear the skin and gain a beau- tiful clear complexion. Be sure to ask for the double strength othine as this is sold under guarantee of money back if it falls to remove freckles. R e ——— degree in 1901, James W. Wadsworth Jr., of New York, graduated in 1898; LeBaron B, Colt of Rhode Isiand, in 1863; and Morris Sheppard of Texas, in 1898. The Yale graduates in the house of representatives are: Thomas ‘W. Miller of Delaware, 1908, S.; Ira C. Copley of Illinois, '8’ Edward E. Den- ison of Illinols, '96; Merrill Moores, '78, of Indiana; O. P. Caldwell, '99, of New York; J. W. Husted, '92, of New York; W. C. Mooney, 1907, of Ohio; W. H, Stafford, '91, L. of Wisconsin; and ‘William Kent, '87, of California. In the the houses, of the 17 Yale representa- tives, 12 are republicans, 3 democrats and 3 progressives. Ten are practicing law. . Foot and Mouth Discase. Mr. Editor: After reading in Mon- day's Bulletin of the foot and mouth disease and the wholesale slaughtering of herds of cattle, as an interested tax- payer, I would like to ask what are the farmers coming to? The legislature makes the laws to protect deer until 1917. They ruin the crops, eat the grass needed for the stock on the farm and then carry the foot and mouth dis- ease to all parts of the country; yet you must not kill them. Next comes the disease among the cattle. Then along comes men to quarantine cattle. and they clean the whole herd out, well ones and all, regardiess of protests against it. Now in Clark's case we were all amused to read where the offi- cers stopped the cattle at Montville, then gave them a certificate that they were all right and let them pass on, but went to Clark’s and killed every ore, not leaving any that were just as good as those they passed on to be slavghtered. Is that quite right? Jus- tice cries out No! Again, farmers must not let their cattle cross' or enter highways, and vet in many cases it is impossible to enter a field or pasture from barnyard except by letting cattle into the highway, and I am informed such persons can get a permit from government officers and state to drive cattle in highways. Does that lessen the danger of the disease any? And, again, isn’t a person that is around the infected cattle, walking through the stables and yard, milking the cows, etc., Jjust as liable to carry the disease as the stock? Now, as a farmer, that looks a little too grafty to suit me, and I think it is a way to rob us farm- ers of our living by selling milk and butter, cattle and calves; and that it should be decided by more -than three men that it is really the dangerous foot and mouth disease and not the usual spring foot trouble called foot rot or foul in the foot. This is a diseased condition of the foot, showing itself mostly between the toes and back part of heel and in the coronet. caused by filthy, unclean stables, wet barnyards, and in_cattle is not generally conta- Slater Memorial Hall Monday lmg, April 5 NEW YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Walter Damrosch . Conducter Margaret Jamieson ....... Soloist ADMISSION $2.00 All seats reserved. Tickets will be on sale, beginning Tuesday, March 30, at the store of Geo. A. Davie. Concert begins at 8 o'clock promptly this great scare is but a common dis- ease in spring among cattle that are kept in flithy quarters, as it has not been stated that the slaughtered cat- tle run at the mouth and had ulcers on tongue ‘and mouth. Hoping all farmers will become Interested enough in this matter to know if it is necessary to lose their herds or not before they are all killed off the way they are now going. Will not some old farmer like myself that has seen this foot trouble I mention come forward and let us hear what was used for it, and if I am not right about the cause and symptoms of it and what he used for 1t? AN OLD FARMER. New London County, March 31, 1915, Concerning the Weather. Mr. Editor: What makes the Packer Cloud Digger so quiet? I notice in The Morning Bulletin the first of March that we were promised a bad month, with a disturbance from the §th to the 10th, and a big atmospheric disturb- ance from the 15th to the 1Sth; also the last of the month was to be cold ard damp. The month has passed, but as yvet I cannot find where any of his predictions have come true. I, for one, would like to know what kind of drink (eoda or otherwise) they sell in Packer to produce such fake weather predic- tlons. Tt is true, it might not be drink that does it, perhaps the Cloud Digger might have had a Welsh rabbit the night before he made the aforesaid predictions and might even have made these predictions while in dreamland, but be. that as it inay, the month of March passed without his predictions coming true (for which we are thank- ful) and we hope the next time that he predicts the weather that he will refrain from eating or drinking any such delicacies as he must have taken last month. Wishing the Cloud Digger better success in his future predictions. A READER OF THE BULLETIN. Norwich, Conn., April 1, 1915, A Legitimate Question. Mr. Editor: Two men representing themselves as being U. S. inspectors were at Ekonk today and were giv- ing orders to farmers as to their stock, When asked as to whether they had inspected any herds in the town of Voluntown the answer was three or four. Upon belng asked what herds they were they answered that they could not remember, and upon fur- ther questioning claimed that they had a record but no effort was made to give the desired information. As a property owner and taxpayer of the town of Voluntown I think that I have a just right to ask the ques- —ee e glous, but it is in sheep. If there is fus under the ekin, cut through and iberate it, then apply peroxide of hy- drogen: a'few minutes later apply one part carbolic acid, ten parts water, and don’t forget to Keep the animal in a clean stable. After the foot ceases to discharge pus, apply pine tar and oakum and bandage around the foot to protect from the dirt. Feed the ani- mal on a cooling, 'axative diet and as it grows better reduce lotion one part carbolic to thirty of water. Another remedy tried in years past is to mix one ounce carbolic acid with two ounces linseed oil and two ounces lard. Before using, draw a rope between the toes to clean out all foreign matter, dirt, etc., then apply. Another simple remedy is to clean foot as above and apply turpentine as soon as the lame- ‘ DON'T NEGLECT THAT COU:H l Use Schiffmann’s Concentrated Ex- pectorant. 2 ounces make a full pint. Guaranteed to give instant relief. If it fails to help you, your money wiil be returned by Pitcher & Service's Drug tore. 1814—1914 John A. Morgan & Son COAL LEHIGH VALLEY No. 2 Nut $6.50 per ton. Office and Vard Centrsl Whart ness begins to appear. 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Selig Drama George Ade Fable Comedy Coming Monday—Children of the Ghetto with Wilton Lackaye tions that I did in regard to the herds examined and any owner of property and stock in the infected region that is quarantined has a right to know about herds that have been examined and hope that the inspector full information and not resort gumshoe methods of doing business. JOHN E. TANNER. March 31, 1915, to Moosup, with any cigarette at any flavor of the delightful Turkish and choice Domestic tobaccos. ice] You get the blend of cholice t's more pleasing than either kind smoked straight. Camel Cigarettes Tarkish and Domestic Blend are smooth and fragrant. Théy won’t bite your tongue and won’t parch your throat and leave no unpleasant cigaretty after-taste. Camels sell 20 for 10c. Owing to the cost of the choice tobaccos blended in Camels, do not look for premiums or coupons. IF your dealer can't send 10¢ for on: orsi00 e & CAMELS, tarn the other hay and e will refand your dollar Ppostage. 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